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“Sometimes you have to wear it on the body. You know you are going to get hit sometimes, and at times you aren’t going to look pretty doing it, but as long as you get through it, that’s the main thing.

“It’s a case of finding a method of doing that.

“It is exactly the sort of thing you want to play the game for. It is a highly intimidating situation, and you shouldn’t shy away from that. You have to relish it.”

And even though he was only 12 months old when it happened, Haseeb says he gets goosebumps when he watches the famous battle former Lancashire opener Mike Atherton had with South Africa’s fearsome paceman Allan Donald at Trent Bridge in 1998.

He said: “The best players who combat that look forward to it, and want to get in the battle and back themselves to get on top.